Stan Carey"But I do know that as a species we're somehow hard-wired to believe lies. It's astonishing how willing we are to believe whatever story we're tossed simply because we want to hear what we want to hear."
—Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
"The harder people try to be the opposite of their parents, the quicker they become them. It's a fact."
—Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
A book from 1992 has no right to be so zeitgeisty, but there's a line in Coupland's Shampoo Planet that keeps zipping ahead: "Technology favors horrible people."
"I am fueled by my embarrassment at my profoundly mistaken belief that simply living in freedom in itself guarantees the continuation of that freedom." —Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet